Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [noun] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people enjoy doing things if they can , it helps keep our minds active and our bodies healthy . |
| 2 | Child 1 : ‘ I do n't think I 'd like hugging daddy if he was all ( thoughtfully ) covered in soot like from a fireplace . |
| 3 | I began asking people if they knew anything about them . |
| 4 | Campese , the first of a number of players to sign lucrative contracts to play in Italy , said the Australian Rugby Union has ‘ got to start paying players if they want to tell them when they can and ca n't play . ’ |
| 5 | IBM made the announcement at the Semiconductor Industry Association meeting in San Jose , where it said that its Technology Products unit would have to start shuttering plants if it did n't succeed in its new initiative of selling chips to other vendors and offering them on the merchant market . |
| 6 | ‘ Us 'll 'ave to start wearin' shoes if we 're goin' to stick around these parts ! ’ |
| 7 | I say to their parents , why bother having children if you do not take the time of effort to care for them ? |
| 8 | Martha turned and shook off her idleness , realising that the old woman would continue enumerating chores if she were not distracted . |
| 9 | ‘ Should n't be too much of a hardship , ’ said Luke , then eyeing Perdita s slender arms , but she better start pumping iron if she s going to play high goal . ’ |
| 10 | I said and that 's if for me I said parting company if we go to dinner we stay together ! |
| 11 | but I 'll have to , I 'll have to stop doing Wednesdays if I do the course for three months |
| 12 | If it was n't for Mike I 'd be off but I 'm afraid he might start snorting coke if I turn my back . |
| 13 | But having rejected a compromise which , for boxing , was about as good as it gets , he ca n't continue claiming innocence if it leads to the heavyweight division again disintegrating into chaos . |